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So I’m currently learning german and Spanish, but what is the one thing that in your language that sounds either highly inappropriate to Americans or just sounds aggressive
Just about anything in German if screamed loud enough sounds aggressive asf
Calling all People who speaks another language!
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whisperz03
Hello, I'm a German speaker from Austria
American People view the German language as angry because of historical reasons (Hitler - he spoke angrily on purpose to make people listen to him) and because German has a bit more consonants and fewer diphthongs. In English, there are less plosive consonants, softer r's and z's and the language is a bit more fluent (also heavily influenced by French and Latin).
If you see those language comparison videos, you will notice that the German speaker is always shouting. Those are just jokes but many take them serious.
As I mentioned, I am from Austria and our native language is Bavarian (German is the official language). Bavarian has many dialects and some sound harsher and some softer than German. My dialect tends to the softer side since we have softer consonants and more vowels and diphthongs. The sentence (Ho i ea e a oi Joa oa Oa oe) is an extreme example, in German it is (Habe ich ihnen ohnehin auch alle Jahre ein Ei hinunter)
Yes, that's basically it.
That makes so much sense, and I never knew that Australia had different languages in its thats really cool. Now I wanna look it up and learn it cause why not
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No kangaroos in austria, dear friend.
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Austro-Bavarian is the native language of Austria, but it is inofficial and we use standard German as official language. In fact, no place of the German speaking area has standard German as native language, it is a mix of all dialects in order to unify the language (was invented by Martin luther in the middle ages). Austro Bavarian also has no standard orthography or standard dialect, so learning it is only possibly by speaking to AB speakers over long time. It's not that useful thought if you do not have direct contact with Austrians.
And yes, also Alemannic is spoken in the most western parts, it is the same situaition like with AB.
Native minority languages are Slovenian, Hungarian and Croatian. And Romani maybe? do not know.
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Your so smart, I never knew that then again I was born in America
by Quackbur08 (Dop #1); ; Report
It's my own country, I know that xD
thx for the friend request
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JeanIsPunk
The n word in my language means art and the word care means dick
Pfffft
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iason
in greek, "pal" is "μάγκα" (magga). i have gotten looks for whatever reason, even though i was obviously not that kind of person.
Omg dude lol
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swchr
Hello! Arab living in Portugal here.
For Arabic, they'd probably think I'm about to blow them up lol.
For Portuguese, it depends. If I'm speaking European Portuguese since, yk, I live in Portugal, they'd probably think I'm speaking Russian attempting to do some spying on their very interesting AmeriKKKan lives. /s
If I spoke Brazilian Portuguese (which I don't) they'd probably think I'm speaking weird
SpanishMexican.That’s interesting and I don’t think youd or your people would really blow anything up at all
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No way. Hundreds of millions don't actively attempt to bomb people in another country, while they themselves get airstriked everyday? Color me surprised!
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Just a bit of light-hearted sarcasm. Didn't mean to get political in a linguistic thread :P
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It made me laugh tho
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